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...bomb and Miss U.S.A. wailed: "My mouth is actually sore from smiling." But the smiles were just beginning for the grocer's daughter from Argentina, who proved to have the most universal appeal at the contest in Miami: Norma Beatriz Nolan, Miss Universe of 1962, a rare blend of Irish, Italian and Spanish, statistically 24, 5 ft. 6 in., 120 lbs. and 35-25-36. The perquisites of office are $15,000 cash and a $7,000 mink coat; the duties include promotional tours of Portugal, Korea, Canada, Mexico and all points south. But Norma showed signs of taking...
...Forms for New. Expectancy and adventure have always flowed from the commingled races from which the English are sprung. Whether handed down from Iberians or Celts, bloodthirsty Vikings or prudent Normans, or from the blend of their strains, the urge to cross oceans and found new societies has been the island nation's most compelling characteristic from the days of the Crusades and European adventure through three centuries of expansion that planted Britain's flag in the New World, through Asia and across Africa...
...youngest U.S. champion in 39 years, Nicklaus has not yet finished college (he has two quarters to go at Ohio State), but he won last week's Open with a rare blend of mature skill and courage, withstanding pressures fierce enough to unnerve the most seasoned competitor. In a tense, head-to-head play-off before a hostile gallery, Nicklaus beat the world's best-known golfer, Arnold Palmer, grimly refusing to yield to a classic Palmer surge, and winning finally by the comfortable margin of three strokes, 71 to 74. To get into the playoff, Nicklaus...
...college hierarchy, or some gentle musings on the anti-Harvard attitude of Harvard's Henry Adams, or even reflections on the upstream migration of the alewives, persistent saltwater fish that find their way to Massachusetts streams each spring. These unlikely enclosures come from a man with an unlikely blend of talents: David McCord-poet, essayist and professional fund raiser-who retires this week after 37 years as executive director of the Harvard Fund Council...
...undergraduate publication mentioned "the sense of intellectual triumph that comes from a thesis written between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m. on the night before it is due"--helped along, no doubt, by a consoling Fatima Turkish Blend Cigarette, which purported to be of assistance in times of crisis like "writing to HER" or studying in exam period...